An Economic and Spatial Plan for Limerick Appendices

Limerick 2030 An Economic and Spatial Plan for Limerick
Employment Growth in the Wider Limerick Metropolitan Area
It is expected that a number of the established higher valued added economic sectors will grow
at or in similar facilities to their current locations. The established sectors and growth sectors can
be expected to further their presence in locations such as Raheen and Dooradoyle, Castleroy
and Plassey, Newscastle West and Shannon. While location specific predictions cannot be made
at this point, it would not be unreasonable to expected 2,000 to 3,000 jobs to emerge at such
locations by 2030.
It should also be noted that ongoing growth at third level / higher education institutions in the
Limerick area will also generate its own growth in teaching, research, student service and
administrative staff.
Construction Employment
The ambition encapsulated in the Economic and Spatial Plan for Limerick entails ongoing and
long term transformation of much of its physical capital. In addition to the site specific projects
identified above a number of other capital projects are likely between now and 2030. These
include:
A new public Waterfront
A new Arthur’s Quay Park and City Square
Street realignment and reprogramming around Arthur’s Quay
On-going streetscape improvements
Georgian Quarter renovation
LIT campus masterplan delivery
It can be expected that site specific, infrastructure and background construction employment will
generate more than 500 - 1,000 jobs per year for the period 2015 t0 2030.
Conclusion
This analysis does not allocate every job to every sector and every site for the period to 2030.
However a rebuilding of confidence in the long-term prospects of the wider Irish economy, an
optimistic view of the sectoral underpinning of the Limerick economy and an emerging view of
near and medium term site specific and infrastructure projects is used here to justify and provide a
rationale for growth of up to 12,000 jobs by 2030.
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